What started out a decade ago as an effort by a handful of family lawyers to recover suspicious filing fees collected by Dallas County, Texas has ended up as a class action settlement that could pay out small dividends to more than 80,000 people. Litigants who filed civil suits between 1996 and 1998 have until mid-November to claim their $30 as part of the settlement between Tim Kelley and the county. For Kelley, 75, a former Dallas Bar Association president, the case has been a personal crusade.
October 25, 1999 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
If you filed a civil suit in Dallas County between Sept. 28, 1996 and July 28, 1998, chances are that Tim Kelley has 30 bucks waiting for you.
What started out a decade ago as an effort by a handful of family lawyers to recover some suspicious filing fees collected by the county has ended up as a class action settlement that could pay out small dividends to over 80,000 people.
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